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The discovery of a dead body in Southie led to 4 kids entering DCF custody and is now the front line of a Boston culture war
It is still not clear how the woman died. However, the death — and the public safety response to it — touched off a bitter political spat that in some ways mirrors the culture war that continues to unfold across the country.

National Park Service won’t disclose applications for Provincetown dune shacks until after leases are signed
Agency denies FOIA request as talks stall with the family of artist Salvatore Del Deo, who was evicted from the shack he's occupied for 77 years.

Driver privilege cards for undocumented residents of 5 states — including Rhode Island and Vermont — now invalid in Florida

“DeSantis needs to shut the hell up,” said Representative Karen Alzate, who sponsored the R.I. bill to issue licenses to undocumented drivers. “He’s spitting out ... harmful and incorrect information.”
Officials ask DOJ to investigate DeSantis-ordered migrant flights

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

President Biden will meet with King Charles III for the first time since he was crowned. After that is the centerpiece of the trip, the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the topic will be the Ukraine war.

Officials ask DOJ to investigate DeSantis-ordered migrant flights

In the letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, Texas and California officials asked for an investigation “given the multijurisdictional, interstate nature of this ongoing scheme.”

On West Roxbury’s Centre Street, a city plan to reduce traffic lanes divides the community

Some residents, worried that lane reduction will increase traffic and cause gridlock, have advocated for alternative measures to draw more attention to vulnerable pedestrians without changing the road’s configuration.

Christmas Tree Shops lays off a third of its Mass. workforce, plans to close all stores

After a plan to keep 19 New England storefronts open fell apart, all stores are now set to close by Aug. 31.

Do you really need to leave two EXTRA hours to get to Logan with the Sumner Tunnel closed? Officials say yes. But where did that number come from?

At an airport Dunkin’ on Thursday locals were complaining the trip to the airport was too fast. Where was the traffic they’d been promised?
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Make way for bicycles on Boylston

Boston, called a "bicycling paradise" in the 1800s, should encourage more residents to commute on two wheels. The city’s proposal to add a protected bike lane on Boylston Street is a step in that direction.
NEWSLETTERS

Latino groups challenge Harvard’s legacy admissions
NEWSLETTERS

Grupos latinos cuestionan admisiones en Harvard
Jim Braude

Why should state legislators control the fate of rent control in Boston?

Alex Beam

Canada, when you’re done with Justin Trudeau, send him here

More recent News

Suspect taken into custody after barricading inside Worcester home after allegedly shooting two relatives, police say
A 24-year-old man was barricaded Friday inside a home on Colby Avenue in Worcester after allegedly shooting two family members and firing at responding officers, police said.

US Treasury chief Yellen appeals to China for cooperation on climate and other global challenges
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appealed to China on Saturday for cooperation on climate change and other global challenges and not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants derail relations.

THE FINE PRINT
Vantage Travel owes more than $170 million, bankruptcy filings show
$108 million of that is owed to customers who paid in advance for trips that were later canceled or postponed.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years
Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

Against the odds, the US economy chugs along, as fears linger
The US labor market showed signs of continued cooling last month but extended a 2-1/2-year streak of job growth, the Labor Department said Friday.

LOVE LETTERS
Will I get over his affair?
“It lasted about six weeks and ended because I discovered it.”

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Billerica condo residents tormented by stray golf balls demand action: ‘It’s a losing battle’

When she moved into a condo near Billerica’s Swanson Meadows golf course, Mary Conway was prepared for a stream of players teeing off steps from her unit. She wasn’t ready for a hail of golf balls hurtling into her home.

‘A nightmare of epic proportions’: Thousands of Mass. residents languish on subsidized housing wait lists
The Globe talked to three residents about their years-long journey to find an affordable place to call home.

FDA grants full approval for Biogen Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline
Medicare said it will broadly cover Leqembi, which costs $26,500 annually and was developed by Eisai and Cambridge-based Biogen.

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk
Our daughters were only 4 and 8 when he died. I’ve tried to fill their lives with their dad’s sense of joy and adventure.

Culture & Lifestyle

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

Concerts create discord between Northampton arts center and city

MFA’s 2023 Boston French Film Festival returns July 6

Special Projects

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

The MBTA let the Lynn commuter rail station fall apart. The T should now expedite its reopening.
Joan Wickersham

The unexpected intimacy of a Zoom memorial service
IDEAS | JUSTIN C. TACKETT

What Thomas Hardy knew about the unknowable

NEWSLETTERS

A ‘Fast Car’ takes a 35-year journey to become a No. 1 country hit
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May I have a word: Umbrellas gone haywire
IDEAS

Are you a teen with a story to tell? Globe Ideas wants to hear from you.

Metro

Suspect taken into custody after barricading inside Worcester home after allegedly shooting two relatives, police say

A 24-year-old man was barricaded Friday inside a home on Colby Avenue in Worcester after allegedly shooting two family members and firing at responding officers, police said.

The discovery of a dead body in Southie led to 4 kids entering DCF custody and is now the front line of a Boston culture war

It is still not clear how the woman died. However, the death — and the public safety response to it — touched off a bitter political spat that in some ways mirrors the culture war that continues to unfold across the country.

Healey claims public records exemption on abortion pill order

A federal judge hadn’t even ruled yet on suspending approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in April when Governor Maura Healey orchestrated a major reserve shipment of the drug through the state’s flagship university.

Dorchester’s most persistent man finally got his driveway. Not everyone is celebrating.

After 2½ years of lobbying the city — and his neighbors — Matt Malloy last month finished installing a hundred-odd square feet of brick pavers on his front lawn, parked a brand new Tesla on top of them, and plugged the vehicle into a charging port mounted on the side of his Victorian home.

Sports

Red Sox

With the 14th pick in the MLB Draft, the Red Sox select …

It is just the fifth time in the past 25 drafts that the Sox will be making such a high selection.
Nicole Yang | Sunday football notes

Sizing up the Patriots and their rivals in the rugged AFC East

The Patriots could use more help on offense to keep up with a stacked division.
ATHLETICS AT RED SOX | 4:10 P.M. (NESN)

Game 90: Athletics at Red Sox lineups and notes

James Paxton is on the mound looking to parlay his strong June into a hot July.
mlb draft 2023

Your guide to the 2023 MLB Draft: Red Sox could go local in the first round

Chad Finn | Sports Media

The Home Run Derby still has plenty of clout and appeal at this address
Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

You can expect the hits to keep on coming from Connor Clifton in Buffalo

Business

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years

Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

US Treasury chief Yellen appeals to China for cooperation on climate and other global challenges

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appealed to China on Saturday for cooperation on climate change and other global challenges and not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants derail relations.

Against the odds, the US economy chugs along, as fears linger

Christmas Tree Shops lays off a third of its Mass. workforce, plans to close all stores
magazine
Globe Magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

CONNECTIONS

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk
Dinner with Cupid

‘My date … recently joined the social sports league that I play [in]’

Perspective

I attended the Market Basket Academy of summer jobs.

metro

Life, cancer, and the boys of summer

Do you really need to leave two EXTRA hours to get to Logan with the Sumner Tunnel closed? Officials say yes. But where did that number come from?

Driver privilege cards for undocumented residents of 5 states — including Rhode Island and Vermont — now invalid in Florida

sports

Marcus Smart’s tribute in Boston will come, but he should be appreciated now for all he did, on and off the court

Baseball has made many significant changes, and now it’s time to improve the All-Star Game

Wembanyama debuts after two top-5 picks hurt in thrilling finish to the previous Summer League game

business

Twitter killer? Here’s what to know about Threads, the new app from Meta.

Wall Street Journal calls for the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich after 100 days in Russian prison

June jobs report all but guarantees Fed will hike interest rates

politics

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

Carters celebrate 77th wedding anniversary

On his age, Biden now trying to show he’s in on the joke

Nation

US Forest Service and historically Black colleges unite to boost diversity in wildland firefighting

Biden takes aim at ‘junk’ insurance, vowing to save money for consumers being played as ‘suckers’

Texas gunman in 2019 Walmart shooting sentenced to 90 life sentences but could still face death penalty

World

Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on

Japanese leaders mark one year since the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe

Russian fighter jets harass American drones over Syria, US military says

opinion

Imagine a President Cheney — it’s easy if you try

A floating perch gives new meaning to remote work

The Environmental Voter Project’s eye-catching innovations

lifestyle

Extremely overdue book returned to New Bedford library 119 years later

National Park Service won’t disclose applications for Provincetown dune shacks until after leases are signed

12 out-of-this-world films to fuel your UFO curiosity

food & dining

How Chris Viaud returned to his Haitian roots and reshaped NH’s food scene

A Taste of Ethnic Boston returns to Big Night Live

Up & Down opens in Jamaica Plain; Las Palmas moves into the Garage

travel

This Mass. beach camping site ranked as one of the best in the country

Spotlight on Dover, N.H., as it celebrates its 400th anniversary

Daydreaming about a daycation? It’s now a reality.

Arts

In his scant six years of painting, Matthew Wong built a vision all his own

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

John Guthrie’s ‘Evolution’ brings together the unexpected

Books

The prosperous Brookline family of Andrew Ridker’s ‘Hope’ struggles in the aftermath of their own spectacular misjudgments

David Lipsky’s ‘The Parrot and the Igloo’ details the forces behind decades of climate change denial

In ‘After the Funeral,’ Tessa Hadley’s quietly brilliant stories harbor a rebel heart

Movies

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ has a lot to say — maybe too much

‘Joy Ride’: Four friends road trip through China in this raunchy comedy

Everyone is talking about the ‘Barbie’ movie. Here’s a guide to all the hype.

Television

Watch for HBO series landing on Netflix

Max’s Harry Potter series to cover seven books in 10 years

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

music

An American portrait in disparate voices

The Eagles’ farewell tour is coming to Boston

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album.

Theater/Dance

Meet the ‘Lehman Trilogy’ cast, three actors juggling dozens of roles

In ‘The Normal Heart,’ the AIDS crisis and a battle against an epidemic of indifference

Mark Morris Dance Group opens Jacob’s Pillow with buoyant ‘The Look of Love’

globe local

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Jack Goldstein, a savior of Broadway theaters, dies at 74

Winnie Ewing, who transformed Scottish politics, dies at 93

Dr. Susan Love, groundbreaking breast cancer surgeon, activist, and author, dies at 75